Force textual pinpad

[Paolo Bolzoni]

I works fine, thanks everyone. I wrote down the whole procedure for
the men of the future with the same problem:

1- Ensure that pinentry is installed in your system,
2- See what options you have writing pinentry- in your shell and pressing tab,
  (The textual choices are pinentry-curses and pinentry-tty)
3- Edit $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.conf, if $GNUPGHOME is unset it means
~/.gnupg, and if the gpg-agent.conf file does not exist you can create
it.
4- Add the following configuration line (here for example is curses)
  pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-curses
  double check the file path.
5- Restart the agent:
  $ ps aux | grep gpg-agent # to get the pid
  $ kill -2 <the pid>
  $ gpg-connect-agent /bye
6- Test if you like it
  $ gpg --symmetric <any file>



On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Peter Lebbing <peter at digitalbrains.com> wrote:
> (Note I also answered your post and suggested pinentry-curses rather
> than pinentry-tty :)
>
> On 24/03/16 12:28, Paolo Bolzoni wrote:
>> I don't have a $GNUPGHOME/gpg-agent.conf file, I can simply create it
>> or I have to assume something is terribly wrong in my system?
>
> There isn't one by default ($GNUPGHOME defaults to ~/.gnupg and is also
> unset by default). You can simply create one.
>
> HTH,
>
> Peter.
>
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